| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.05.2020 | Keriton receives approval for its patent for Improved Express of Breast Milk | Congratulations to Broad Street Angels portfolio company, Keriton, for its patent approval on March 31, 2020! |
| 20.02.2020 | Broad Street Angels Closes 2019 with over $1,500,000 in Investments | (Philadelphia, PA) February 20, 2020 – Broad Street Angels (BSA), an angel investment group in Philadelphia, PA, held its annual meeting at The Union League of Philadelphia on Thursday February 20, 2020 to announce its annual results. BSA i... |
| 17.09.2018 | Meet the Health Care Innovators 2018 |
Penn Medicine along with six doctors from the health system are among the 25 organizations and individuals selected for recognition.
Also receiving multiple recognitions is Einstein Healthcare Network, which had three physicians selected a... |
| 25.05.2018 | Pitch Perfect Winner Spotlight: Keriton CEO highlights benefits of ‘conference room pilots’ | In a phone interview with founder and CEO Vidur Bhatnagar, he pointed out that the issue of breast milk management is more complex than many realize. The main services Keriton provides are ensuring that new mothers are producing enough brea... |
| 16.04.2018 | Meet the health IT startups taking part in the MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect contest | Ariel Precision Medicine developed genetic testing and clinical decision support tools to support patients with complex chronic diseases.
Astarte Medical Partners has a clinical decision support tool aimed at improving healthcare for preter... |
| 02.02.2018 | 10 Philly Startups to Watch in 2018 |
We put a call out to Philly’s innovation community to get a pulse on the startups we’re most excited about for 2018. The city answered the call with much momentum — we received more than 150 nominations. These startups have each identified... |
| 25.09.2017 | Local Leaders, National Topics: Women’s Health Innovation | In 2015, Dan Hilferty, CEO of Independence Blue Cross (IBX), told Philadelphia Magazine that Philly could be the, “Silicon Valley of healthcare innovation.” Yet the concept hinged on a few variables. According to Hilferty, Philadelphia need... |
| 28.07.2017 | Twelve Health Companies Creating an Impact in our Region | When you talk about trends in tech there are two mentions that you cannot leave out: impact and health technology. Philadelphia has blossomed into a burgeoning hub for startups in health technology. With pillars in the industry like Siemens... |
| 23.03.2017 | Keriton wins big at #SXSW: ‘I want to dedicate this award to Philadelphia’ | As we’ve noted, Philly headed to South by Southwest with a significant presence this year, including Mayor Jim Kenney himself.
Philly’s health IT scene is no stranger to SXSW awards: in 2015, BioBots won “Most Innovative.”
What did the Drea... |
| 17.03.2017 | 8 startups repping Philly’s health IT scene at SXSW | Check out our full slate of SXSW 2017 coverage here.
On the first day of SXSW Interactive, former Vice President Joe Biden delivered a powerful message to a captivated crowd. He was in Austin to announce his foundation’s new cancer initiati... |
| 15.03.2017 | At a pediatric innovation challenge, startups illustrate growing maturity of healthcare entrepreneurs | Not only are many digital health and medtech entrepreneurs making better choices of which pain points to go after, they are increasingly showing a grasp of marketing that makes their pitch more persuasive.
Team Luminopia won in the medtech ... |
| 01.03.2017 | Digital health startup helps hospitals, mothers with breast milk management | “We know it’s a new product, but we are very confident about how we are going about this. We’ve observed the NICU, we’ve spoken to moms, we’ve spoken to a lot of different hospitals,” Bhatnagar said in a phone interview.
For nurses in the N... |
| 25.02.2017 | Keriton Raised $1M to Make Sure Babies Keep Breastfeeding | Announced last week, the Philly-based company just closed a $1 million seed round led by BioAdvance. Ben Franklin is proud to be backing the company, alongside Dreamit Ventures, Penn Medicine, Amerihealth, Wharton,Dorm Room Fund and investo... |
| 16.02.2017 | Immigrant-founded Keriton raised $1 million to help keep premature babies on breast milk | Vidur Bhatnagar wants you to know that, had his startup been around in 1950, Stevie Wonder might still have his eyesight.
See, studies have suggested that access to breast milk can stave off diseases like retinopathy of prematurity, a malad... |
| 21.07.2016 | Dreamit’s spring 2016 class met with 100 investors on both coasts | The first cycle of Dreamit Ventures’ spring 2016 class just graduated. What do they walk away with?
In March, we reported that around a third of the 25 startups in this cohort would stay in Philly during the 16-week program. This class was ... |
| 20.07.2016 | Dreamit accelerator ditches demo days, unveils 25 new health and education startups | Dreamit Ventures’ accelerator has ditched the demo day, according to Chief Innovation Officer Steve Barsh. That’s not the only change the early-stage venture firm and accelerator has made of late.
Today, Dreamit unveiled a list of 25 new he... |
| 28.03.2016 | At least one-fifth of the new Dreamit class will be based in Philadelphia during the program | In the fall of 2015, Dreamit announced a new model that would allow participating startups to be based anywhere in the world. For some startups, like Baltimore-based edtech Lessoncast, that made the program more attractive. But we wondered ... |
| 24.03.2016 | Global startup accelerator Dreamit announces new cohort of companies for 2016 | Last year, Dreamit began its “Zero/Zero” offer, which allows entrepreneurs to be involved without giving up equity during the four month program. The accelerator is also giving up “Demo Day” and instead will curate investor meetings during ... |
| 24.03.2016 | Philadelphia's Dreamit Health announces 15 startups in its 2016 accelerator class | Philadelphia-based accelerator Dreamit Health has announced the 15 health startups that will join its next accelerator class.
As in previous years, the accelerator is sponsored by Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross, but this year, Dr... |
| - | Meet the health IT startups taking part in the MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect contest | It’s an exciting time to be a healthcare entrepreneur. Health IT investment is at record levels, buoyed by the need for technology that will support the journey to value-based care, reduce hospitalization, cut down on waste, and improve car... |
| - | Global startup accelerator Dreamit announces new cohort of companies for 2016 | For Dreamit‘s inaugural 2016 four-month cycle, the accelerator has accepted 25 new companies – twice the number it usually accepts and the first class to be part of its evolved new program. Fifteen of these startups are part of the accelera... |
| - | At a pediatric innovation challenge, startups illustrate growing maturity of healthcare entrepreneurs | CEO Vidur Bhatnagar’s company Keriton won the digital health track of the Impact Pediatric Health pitch at SXSW.
The two companies that walked away with awards in their hands and $15,000 checks in their pockets from the Impact Pediatric Hea... |
| - | Pitch Perfect Winner Spotlight: Keriton CEO highlights benefits of ‘conference room pilots’ | From left: MedCity News Editor in Chief Arundhati Parmar, CEO Vidur Bhatnagar, and MHIN President David Kereiakes
Keriton, a health IT startup that developed a Software as a Service to analyze how hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Units mana... |
| - | Digital health startup helps hospitals, mothers with breast milk management | Starting soon at Penn Medicine, nurses working in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) will have a brand new way to label and track the breast milk being delivered to the hospital by mothers to their premature babies.
Enter Keriton, a gr... |
| - | Software company Keriton, used in NICUs, raised $1M for its post-pandemic growth plans | Like many other healthcare tech companies, Keriton, the maker of a feeding management platform for newborns, found that the pandemic amplified its mission and work.
The six-year-old company created software that acts as an in-hospital solut... |
| - | Keriton | “Keriton – Feeding Management” |
